Discover the farthest star in the Milky Way

Haverford University (USA) researchers have found the most distant stars in the Milky Way, a finding that could help determine the formation of our galaxy.

John Bochanski, research leader and assistant professor at Haverford University, studied stars up to 500,000 light-years ago.

Astronomers have touched the edge of the Milky Way - (Photo: NASA)

As a result, his team was able to locate two stars named ULAS J0744 + 25 and ULAS J0015 + 01 , with an estimated distance of 775,000 and 900,000 light-years from Earth.

To illustrate the great distance between these stars and the globe, Mr. Bochanski illustrated by example the light emitted from ULAS J0015 + 01 leaving the planet at the time of human ancestors learning how to create fire out.

According to Space.com, experts used the parameters collected from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

These stars belong to red giant stars , quite rare compared to red dwarfs, and the light emitted from red giants allows it to easily locate them despite the distance.

Experts are planning to collect a large number of red giants in an attempt to recreate the Milky Way's formation, according to a report published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.